Internet Access outside USA/CDN

[Bill Murray]

This is not the proper forum to ask the question, perhaps, but most of the folk I interact with tend to reside here.

Some years (3-4) ago, it was my understanding that Internet users outside of of the US and Canada had to pay normal "long distance" charges when connecting to the Internet.

At present, here, we pay for an ISP, AOL in my case, about $40 per month. I have phone DSL which costs I think about an additional $40 per month and that gives me pretty good high speed access when it comes to uploading or downloading large files.

That allows me, and I think my Canadian friends, unlimited access to whatever country we wish in terms of accessing Web Sites both from the sending and receiving end of things. At, a flat monthly rate.

The reason I ask the question is that once I get my computer gremlins fixed, I could send many dozens of photos out either through this forum or through e-mail and I do not want to cause a problem for anyone who has to, so to say, pay for each transmission more or less like a lot of cell phone programs.

Hopefully, I am dead wrong, it is a legitimate concern though and I would like to hear from some of my friends on the question.l
Bill